Hob Koa Ongst
Although I have been living in Upper Austria for quite a while now, I still struggle with the beautiful and unique but just as equally hard-to-learn dialect of them.
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06 March 2026
How can you become a wine writer?
The answer is easy. With perseverance. Of course, if you give it just a little more thought, this is just the prerequisite for what follows…
Through the eyes of a historian
The powerhouse of development in Tokaj-Hegyalja: the Jews
A vinous voyage of discovery
The more you learn about wine, the wider and wider your horizons become, until the vista is seemingly infinite
I want to go back!
A personal summary about recent times, travels, tastings, flavours and aromas, but most of all about the people.
This is not the Spanish Armada
Questions regarding car fleets in Hungary
Alternative Tokaj
Visiting the small underground Slovak Tokaj wine cellars, where great surprises await you
Tokaj - and dry?
Moreover, buying from Tokaj is still much cheaper than the big-name wine regions. Think of it as a kind of treasure hunt. Believe me, it’s worth it!
Buying guide - dry Tokaj
A brief footnote to those wishing to immediately rush off to their wine merchants to get their hands on a few cartons of dry Tokaj.
Why did Central and Eastern Europe Vanish from the Wine Maps?
Lately the wines of Central and Eastern Europe has grown stronger on the wine market, mainly thanks to the Austrian Grüner Veltliner and Blaufrankisch, the Furmint of Tokaj and the Croatian Plavac Mali.
